About Rosemary Hayes

Rosemary Hayes has written over fifty books for children and young adults. She writes in different genres, from edgy teenage fiction (The Mark), historical fiction (The Blue- Eyed Aborigine and Forgotten Footprints), middle grade fantasy (Loose Connections, The Stonekeeper’s Child and Break Out) to chapter books for early readers and texts for picture books. Many of her books have won or been shortlisted for awards and several have been translated into different languages.

Rosemary has travelled widely but now lives in South Cambridgeshire. She has a background in publishing, having worked for Cambridge University Press before setting up her own company, Anglia Young Books, which she ran for some years. She has been a reader for a well-known authors’ advisory service and runs creative writing workshops for both children and adults.

Rosemary has now turned her hand to adult fiction and her historical novel The King’s Command is about the terror and tragedy suffered by a French Huguenot family during the reign of Louis XIV.

Her ‘Soldier Spy’ trilogy Traitor’s Game, The King’s Agent and the recently published Code of Honour are all set during the time of the  Napoleonic Wars and follow the fortunes of disgraced soldier, Captain Will Fraser and his wounded Sergeant, Duncan Armstrong as they re-invent themselves as undercover agents for the British Government.